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Nature center schedules fund-raising activities

Posted: Thursday, September 26, 2002

By Lee Shearerlshearer@onlineathens.com

Homemade pie, music by the Warblers and a talk by state Labor Commissioner Michael Thurmond will help kick off a fund-raising drive for the Sandy Creek Nature Center at 3 p.m. Sunday at the center's ENSAT Building.

Thurmond, whose family once farmed the land now occupied by the nature center, is the honorary chairman for the drive, which will raise money to install an interactive learning exhibit on Georgia agriculture.

The event includes free slices of homemade pie prepared by nature center board members using peaches, pecans and other Georgia food products.

The new exhibit will join existing exhibits on coastal and wetlands ecosystems in the Nature Center's ENSAT Building off Commerce Highway.

Parts of the exhibit will focus on the economy, history and ecology of agriculture and agribusiness in the state.

The nature center board's goal is to raise between $300,000 and $400,000 for the exhibit.

The event is open to the public, but attendees are asked to make reservations. For more information, call Edith Hollander at (706) 613-3615, extension 235, or Randy Smith at (706) 613-3615, extension 233.

Published in the Athens Banner-Herald on Thursday, September 26, 2002.